From 1 to 4 May 2025 the botanical garden of the University of Padua welcomed “Awakens. The Flower Festival” To its tenth edition. An event that combines science, art, nature and show designed to surprise and make you think while exciting.
Awakens at the Botanical Garden of Padua: an invitation to awaken
Awakenings It is much more than an event: it is a sensory, intellectual and emotional experience. It is an invitation to let yourself be surprised, to cultivate a new gaze on the world, to feel part of an ecosystem where beauty, knowledge and care intertwine.
The event is opened in the name of the beauty of theVegetable garden in all its wealth, therefore the music with the Buskers flower editionan unprecedented collaboration with the Ferrara Buskers Festival. The notes of extraordinary artists such as Drumbo Drummer, Porcapizza, StradePerte and Melusin’s harp spread in the air, intertwining with the scents and colors of spring in bloom.
Conferences that make the mind blossom
The conferences They brought scholars, botanists, popularies and writers from all over the world to Padua. There has been talk of algae and their future potential, real and imaginary gardens in literature, biomimetics and wisdom hidden in nature.
And again, of palm trees to protect, perfumes in antiquity, of digital biodiversity and how the plant world is classified in the era of big data. A dense and stimulating calendar followed with great attention from visitors.
Creative workshops for everyone
Those who love to experiment has found bread for their teeth in the many creative workshops. Many were able to learn the art of floral composition, create a rose cream, discover anti -priest recipes or make flowers and notebooks with a botanical themed paper.
Botanical clinic He has proposed a workshop entirely dedicated to sustainable floriculture, while with roots – small museum of nature – the plant world has been sto -solved with stamps, colors and imagination. Practical, original and engaging activities, for young and old.
The magic of appointments at sunset of awakenings
Three special evenings enriched the festival with suggestive performance between day and night. Faber Teater has staged Andantea poetic journey between voice and movement. ANIMAa musical story dedicated to a centuries -old fir transformed into an instrument. The event ended with a journey between Renaissance music and botanical history, which told the plants of America and their sounds. Unique moments, suspended between nature and art.
Discover, observe, explore: activities for curious spirits
Throughout the event visitors moved freely, participating in experiences “Continuous cycle”. Have become green investigators with Plant detective; they were able to discover the increased reality of plants with Nature; they listened to the stories of the gardeners, or they let themselves be cradled by the poetry whispered in The whisper of the garden. In short: a festival that invited to observe with new eyes and to live the time slowly.
Small botanists grow: the protagonists children
The little ones are at the center of the program with Laboratories and shows designed for all ages. From interactive game Who wants to be botanical? to the creative typography of The printed gardenpassing through Flower e The cheerful botanist. The theater completed the proposal with three shows surrounded by greenery: The air shop, Carlo, melodies and celestial ears e Thumbwhich tells the strength of kindness and transformation.
Guided tours: a thousand faces of spring
Among the most loved experiences were the guided tours, all included in the ticket. With Spring revealed The guests walked among the first blooms, while the nineteenth -century greenhouses reveal the secrets of orchids and seeds.
Water flowers He brought them to the world of algae; Daily exoticon the other hand, made the plants that we use every day discover. Two special itineraries outside the garden led the curious, one to the wonderful garden of ancient roses, the other – Of vegetable gardens and water – to the story of the history of the saint and the city. A perfect way to combine botany, art and spirituality.